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1.2.2 Calendar and Details

  • Calendar and Details

     

    Timing

    Activity/Session/Task

    Wednesday 9/03 14:15

    Arrival at Nürnberg Airport (coach) from Munich Airport / Reception by hosting families and teachers

    Thursday 10/03   8:00

    Welcome by principal Mrs. Keck

    Thursday 10/03  

    8:20-13:00

    Erlangen-Rallye

    Friday 11/03

    8:00-15:30

    Bamberg

    Monday 14/03

    8:00-16:00

    Daytrip to Mödlareuth

    Tuesday 15/03

    8:00-16:00

    Daytrip to Flossenburg

    Wednesday 16/03

    8:00-14:00

    Nürnberg Dokuzentrum and Reichparteitagsgelände

    Thursday 17/03

    All the journey

    Working on students project

    Friday 18/03

    8:00-14:00

    Students final presentations

     

    Friday 18/03

    16:00

    Return trip from Nürnberg Airport (coach) to Munich and finally to Bilbao

    Afternoons & weekend

    Stay in host families

  • ACTIVITIES & PHOTOS

    Erlangen Rally - Igone

    “Thanks to this activity we were able to walk through the streets of Erlangen and start to get to know this city. We saw the university, the park, the oldest building and many more places.” (...) “As we did not have time to finish all the exercises we were not the "best"group. However, we were very happy with what we have learned and how much fun we had.”

    Erlangen Rally - Maia

    “At the begining we were a little bit lost, but then we really got lost. We had to ask so many people to guide us, to solve a riddle, or to tell us were the place was. Not all the work was done by them, obviously, we had to count windows once.
    Jokes aside, it was a really fun and a little bit stressing day, and the city was stunning”

    Erlangen Rally - Aitana

    “Even though the questions have been difficult, my group hasn’t given up and we have tried to answer all the questions. (...) we really have made our best. In fact, I would say that we have asked more than half of the population of Erlangen(...)”

    Bamberg - Inés

    “This village was particularly interesting due to its history. Bamberg used to be divided into two parts, one for the pebble and the other for the bishop. As a consequence, a house was built in the middle of the river that crosses through the village. This building was built as a sign of protest, but currently it has become a symbol of the linkage between the two different parts”

    Bamberg - June

    “Continuing with the tour, we have entered the Bamberg Cathedral. Inside, we have seen different sculptures, such as a decapitated martyr and a smiling angel. We have been told the legend of the construction of the cathedral and we have been able to see the statues of the protagonists, two toads. I have found it very interesting. Then, we have gone to a garden and we have appreciated the beautiful views of the mediaeval city of Bamberg”

    Bamberg (María O., Maia, Itsasne)

    “I have really liked it because the houses were so cute and it looked like a film.” (María) (But afterwards)”I was more and more surprised by the beauty of it. I would describe it as a familiar, cozy and german vibe (which I really like). It also had the baroque style I really like all over the city. Many things were just paintings that looked like pilars, domes…” (Maia) “He [the German teacher] had also given us a kind of (croissant) and he had told us that it comes from Vienna and not from France as most people think.” (Itsasne)

    Nürnberg (with families) Naia

    “Something I really liked about the city was that there was music wherever you went.” (...)
    “When we left we were looking for a costume jewellery shop but a pianist playing beautiful songs got in our way, so we stayed and enjoyed his music until it was time to go to the train. It was very funny because we all finished dancing following a man that was there.”

    Nürnberg - Inés

    “we arrived there and we were told about a curious tradition that was supposed to bring good luck. To have good luck, we had to turn a ring three times. Just after getting our one years worth of luck, we headed to the castle of Nuremberg. Not only was it beautiful, but it also made it possible to see the skyline of the whole city. In addition, two street musicians were playing nice mediaeval music.”

    Mödlareuth - June

    ”there was a wall but no checkpoint. For more than 37 years it was not possible to legally cross the border to get from one hamlet to another. Here was a restricted area on the one hand and a rush of visitors on the other. Here it was forbidden to wave or salute from east to west. It has been a very interesting trip. I didn't know that in Mödlareuth there is also a wall similar to the one in Berlin and that the village is still half Bavarian and half Thuringian.”

    Mödlareuth - Rakel

    “Most of us took the opportunity to (...) look at a place where Hitler's vehicles were until the guide arrived. When the guide arrived, we entered a museum and she showed us a mini-movie that explained the past of the place. Then, we left the museum and she gave us a kind of tour explaining very interesting things. What struck me the most was seeing the wall that separated Germany and some of the stories it told us. The only bad thing is that it was very cold and I didn't feel my feet. At the end of the tour, I have to admit that I loved it.”

    Mödlareuth - Naia

    “We could see somehow how life was in a separated village and the different states of the wall´s construction (it was getting bigger and bigger to prevent communication between the two extremes).What really surprised me was that it was strictly forbidden crossing the wall and if it was done there would be harsh consequences. To control that people did not cross there was a control tower, which we visited from the outside. Finally, we were able to see a part of the wall that they still have in the village”

    Mödlareuth - Itsasne

    “Mödlareuth (...) is one of the towns that was divided when the wall was built in Germany. We have been (...) learning about it with the explanations that the guide was giving us. It was horrifying what happened there and how even the families weren’t able to see their nearest partners. It was really cold we have even seen snowy water, it has been a pity because the place was very interesting but more than in what we were seeing we were concentrated in the cold we had.”

    Mödlareuth - Inés

    “Even in that weather, the trip turned out to be very interesting. The village was popularly known as Little Berlin. As Berlin used to be, this village was also separated by a wall.
    It came as a shock to hear how inhabitants of East Germany had to led such restricted lifes, they even couldn´t acknowledge the existence of the wall, and had to simply ignore it as if it wasn't there.
    I found especially interesting the story the guide told us about her own mother, who was rebuffed every time she tried to get permission to access an area near the wall, simply because once or twice she was overheard making comments against the regime in which she lived”
    “During dinner my partner's mother told us about her own stories related to the division of Germany. That made me realize that it isn't just some historic event from a long time ago.”

    Mödlareuth - Maia

    “Many people from the East took off to the West. Because of the serious lack of people, they had to make a physical barrier between the two sides. The east side was significantly more strict and worse, which made the people want to escape. But things were really difficult, as the security increased after each year and attemp.
    Short after the Berlin Wall came down was the Mödlareuth one taken down.It was a really freaky and interesting experience for me”

    Flossenburg - Beñat

    “There we were visiting a concentration camp, which was very shocking to me since the guide told us different stories that happened and they seemed very cruel to me, since she told us how it was very normal to die because of the bad lifestyle that the who were there, working hard all day, barely eating, with very little hygiene and freezing to death. But it seemed to me one of the most interesting excursions I did and the truth is that I learned a lot.”

    Flossenburg - Carolina/Juncal

    “It was impressive as we could not believe that so many people had died there not (so) many years ago”
    “The truth is that she (the guide) explained it to us wonderfully and I found very interesting and shocking everything she told us about the life of the prisoners there. I can hardly believe that such horrible things were done not so long ago.”

    Flossenburg - Rakel / Inés

    “In the museum you could see how many innocent people dying in such a cruel way and how human beings can be horrible. Other things that surprised me was that a Basque person was killed there”

    “We also discovered that not only jews were (...) in concentration camps, gipsys, homosexuals and everyone with an opposing mindset were candidates for imprisonment.”

    Dokuzentrum - Naia

    “We also visited the exhibition of the Dokuzentrum that was in the congress, a building that resembled the Roman coliseum and was built in this way because Hitler said that his power would last as long as the Roman empire. But, contradictory as it may seem, the building was never completed because of the cost involved”

    Reichparteitagsgelände - Sara / Itsane

    “The guide told us that Hitler liked to build his buildings with granite and people thought that they were beautiful. What people didn't know was that the Jews, who were in the concentration camps, worked and transported the granite and that some died working so it was not so beautiful.”

    “It is very important to know what happened in Germany when Hittler was in power so we can have a learning experience from that and not repeat it.”
    “It’s funny to see all those buildings without being finished, but the history behind it is not that funny.”

    Dokuzentrum - Maia

    “The architecture style he chose, brutalism, had the purpose of emiting his principal idea: you can't do anything alone, indiviluality doesn't matter.”

    COVID Measures - Aitana

    “Once at school, we have had to take an antigen test. I must admit I was nervous, even though I knew I was going to test negative because I had taken a test just before I came. There was a possibility that I had caught COVID during the flight, but it was unlikely as I was wearing my FFP2 mask at all times. After everyone has tested negative, we have taken the bus to Erlangen”